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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Johnson County, Kansas

Johnson County, Kansas has 73 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1934–1991. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Johnson County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
73
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1934–1991 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    54 74.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    19 26.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. Bonner Springs-Plant #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1401484
    Abandoned
  2. Builders No 2 Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Builders Sand Company · MSHA ID 1400469
    Abandoned
  3. Cedarapids 1 Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilty Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1401326
    Abandoned
  4. EDGERTON QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bazin Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1400836
    Abandoned
  5. Gardner Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reno Construction Company · MSHA ID 1400148
    Abandoned
  6. I-435 Highway Construction Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401392
    Abandoned
  7. K-10 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reno Construction Company · MSHA ID 1401090
    Abandoned
  8. Lone Elm Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shawnee Rock Company · MSHA ID 1401568
    Abandoned
  9. MINE #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Holland Corp Inc · MSHA ID 1400761
    Abandoned
  10. Mine #2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Holland Corp Inc · MSHA ID 1400172
    Abandoned
  11. Monahan Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1400760
    Abandoned
  12. Olathe Aggregate Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt Sales Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401569
    Abandoned
  13. Olathe Lone Elm Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · NR Hamm Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 1401642
    Abandoned
  14. Olathe Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holland Corp. Inc. · MSHA ID 1401598
    Abandoned
  15. PLANT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1401553
    Abandoned
  16. Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prairie Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1401323
    Abandoned
  17. Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prairie Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1400160
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim Kidwell Construction · MSHA ID 1401668
    Abandoned
  19. Portable Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Kansas, Inc. · MSHA ID 1400811
    Abandoned
  20. Renner Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reno Construction Company · MSHA ID 1400773
    Abandoned
  21. Rip Rap, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rip Rap, Inc. · MSHA ID 1401664
    Abandoned
  22. Shawnee Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Kansas, Inc. · MSHA ID 1401524
    Abandoned
  23. Stanley Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Kansas Inc · MSHA ID 1400149
    Abandoned
  24. Tobin Mine & Mill #2
    Underground metal/non-metal · J A Tobin Construction Company · MSHA ID 1401398
    Abandoned
  25. Van Lerberg Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1400161
    Abandoned
  26. Wilder Dredge And Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1401308
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Disturbed Surface - Pit 44
Quarry 7
Gravel Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
Disturbed Surface 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.